Today we are going to
give you a test drive report of the Tata Zest. We drove both Petrol as well as
Diesel and the Diesel comes with an automatic this time. This car is pretty
attractive is a compact Sedan under 4 meter, from the front you can see, there
is large grill and air dams it looks really beautiful, sculpted bonnet design
and bumper design, large head lamps with comes with projector head lamps and
day time running LED lights which are near the fog lamp housing which in the
top end variant. You also get smart alloy wheel when you look at the side and
the side profile also have some dynamic lines which make it look good. The
dynamic lines run from the front wheel arches all the way to the real tail lamp
cluster and it gives it a very dynamic look. The rear also looks interesting,
the large and chunky tail lamp cluster which is the combination cluster, some
use of chrome on the sides as well as the rear. On the sides, you will see use
of chrome around the windows and on the front and rear, around the grill as
well as over the license plate area. The rear bumper is also very sculpted in design
and comes with an integrated rear fog lamp as well. From design prospective,
this car looks really well despites being a compact Sedan . Although the rear is not very
proportionate as we are used to seeing in Sedans but this is the new design
language of compact Sedans which almost all compact Sedans looks like, so we
don’t have any major complaints here.
Let me take you inside
the car and door trim is nicely finished and has power window controls for all
four power windows and there is also control for the out side rear view mirrors
which are electronically adjustable. The door trim is finished in dual tone so
is the interiors, the dash board looks good and smart, and it definitely looks
premium. The steering wheel is three spoke designs, with large chrome finish
Tata Logo in the middle. The steering wheel this time is also very functional
and comes with multifunction control, you can control the voice command system
of the car as well as the audio system using a multimedia system, and it also
comes with key less entry. The central entertainment console is also very
interesting, it comes with touch screen entertainment on top of the line
variants and it pretty looks very good and premium. The instrumental console is
also very attractive and has two large analog dials which come with a
tachometer and speedometer. There is also a digital dial in the middle
which shows you the instantaneous fuel
economy, average fuel economy, odometer. Talking about the front seats, they
are nice and spacious, they are bucket seats and give good support, it is
comfortable to drive and give you a good seating position as well. Talking
about the rear seats, the cabin is very spacious and the rear seats feel very
good to be in, the rear seats are wide, the under thigh support is good, there
is enough cabin space, leg room, head room as well as shoulder room. So this
car is fairly comfortable on the inside. The door trims come with lot of cubby
holes and storage spaces, so you can put some nick nacks etc. the air
conditioning is fairly effective but there is no rear ac vents on the Tata
Zest, not even in the top end model. The rear seats come with adjustable head
restrains, which is a good comfort feature. Talking about the cabin space, it
is an over all a very spacious car, it gives good airy feel due to the large
windows areas and soothing dual tone interiors. The boot space on the Tata Zest
is also fairly good; it is just less than 400 liters of space which is fairly
good for a compact Sedan .
Now let me talk about one
of the most important factors about a compact Sedan is the ride and handling
quality, we test drove both petrol and diesel and one thing which is common in
both of these cars is the suspension which is very well tuned on both of these
cars. We did drive the car on bad roads as well as the good highways and it
drives well on both of the terrains. It is very well planted, feels very good,
handling is sharp and the steering feedback is also very good. The petrol car
is powered by 1.2 L Revotron engine which comes with multiple modes so you have
City mode, Eco mode and Sports mode. The petrol engine is a turbo charged unit
and comes with 90 PS of peak power and 140 NM of torque, the sport mode makes
it drive really well. It comes with 5 speed manual transmission which has been
nicely mated to the engine. We found that the drive was ezyle and it is fun to
drive.
Talking about the diesel
model, we drove the AMT or the Automatic Manual Transmission, it is not a true
automatic transmission but for the driver, it is practically like an automatic
transmission, How ever the internals are like a manual transmission. So you get
the best of both world, you get the comfort of an automatic and mileage of a
manual transmission. During our drive of the automatic manual transmission or AMT
Automatic diesel, we found the car to be driving really well how ever near the
RPM where the gear shift to place, the car feels a bit jerky when there is an
up shift or a down shift. But with the AMT Driving comfort is very good when it
comes to over all driving in city congested traffic conditions. There is also a
sports mode in the automatic manual transmission car and you can also put it to
manual mode by sliding the gear knob towards the left side.
Summing up are review of
the Tata Zest, it looks good, it gives you a lot of space, it comes with a lot
of features, bells and whistles and is very good value for money. We also
expect very good fuel economy from this car, we expect the diesel to deliver
approximately 20 KMPL in the real world and the petrol to deliver around 15
KMPL in the real world provided that you drive in a normal condition.
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